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Information is an important part of a nurse’s work and her pedagogic skills are put to the test. Surgery is an important event in a patient’s life and it is well known that patients often are unsatisfied with the information they receive. The objective of this essay was to retrieve deeper knowledge of what information patients want before an operation and their experiences of the information they do receive. This was done by a literature review in which scientific articles were searched for, critically examined and the results from twelve finally chosen articles were com-piled into a common result. The result of the study was that patients generally are satisfied with the amount of information they receive but they wish more informa-tion about pain and pain treatment and about how complications can be prevented.